ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,173, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to STRIKE TECH LTD. (Pretoria, South Africa).
"Electrical surge suppressor" was invented by Christo Schutte (Wierda Park, South Africa) and Brenton Kinloch (Blairgowrie, South Africa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical surge suppressor includes a capacitive component incorporated inside a housing and immersed in, or filled with, oil; a linear resistive component; and a non-linear resistive component connected or connectable in parallel with the linear resistive component. The surge suppressor has a monitoring circuit configured to measure at least one operating characteristic of the lin...